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MIT Researchers Developed a 'System For Dream Control' (vice.com)
dmoberhaus writes: Researchers at MIT Media Lab have adapted a centuries' old technique for inducing hypnagogia for the 21st century. Known as Dormio, this system is able to extend and manipulate the period users spend in a transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep known as hypnagogia. This state is characterized by vivid hallucinations and microdreams, and as the MIT researchers demonstrated, the contents of these microdreams can be manipulated with the system and subsequently result in heightened creativity when the user awakes. Motherboard got the exclusive details on the system.
the martian spy adventure dream.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
So they listened to Silent Lucidity and tried it out?
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
In a self driving Uber.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
That's why I told them not to show The Matrix to AI. AI sees, AI does.
I hope nobody tries to steal my dreams.
I was introduced to this phenomenon through Kurzweil's book "How to create a mind". He claims that the brain is massively parallelized pattern recognition machine, with consciousness being a censor that filters results. While in hypnagogia, this censoring function is suppressed and you are able to make "unthinkable" connections between ideas you normally think are unrelated. Of course, you should just take notes of these connections and later evaluate them rationally to see if they have any merit. It's very exciting that technology might be able to prolong and enhance this creative state of mind.
The article allllllmost gets through itself without going into politics, but out of the all the examples in the infinite noosphere this machine is meant to probe, the one that made the cut was the phrase "forks are colonialism".
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“I asked him about it when he woke up,” Horowitz told me. “He said, ‘Oh at home I eat food with my hands and here I have a sharp, cold metal instrument that I use to stab the food that goes into me. I guess it has a colonial energy.’
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The idea of hypnagogia exploitation is interesting, but if all we're going to get is postmodern poetry fragments that decry 2400 year old eating instruments, maybe our thought leaders should stick to microdosing LSD for ideas.
There are some impossibly crazy folks in this world. Can we PLEASE stop this crazy train? I'm ready to wake up now!
Captcha.. It's only a dream.... A bad dream...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
I'd get excited about this, except that I just know the first two questions that various important groups will ask are "How can we make money from this?" and "How can this be weaponized?"
This state is characterized by vivid hallucinations and microdreams
Sort of the brain's version of LSD.
the contents of these microdreams can be manipulated with the system
Which can be controlled better than drugs, cheaper too, and no DEA to worry about.
I always see all sort of weird and vivid images at that time of sleep. I sometimes hear and have conversations with some beings.
Doubly so, those beings always ruin my path to sleep by forcing me to wake up. I'd like to give them a piece of my mind for doing so!
This is already a thing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
My dreams are more fun than real life. Last night I dreamed I was wandering around a place like Ocean City and at one point I knocked some guy with a porn stash in a pogo stick suit off a window and he bounced off grumbling at me as I was trying to get away from giant brain crabs overrunning the city. The best part about those kinds of dreams for me is I know the monsters are fake and it's like a game of tag but I still enjoy getting chased. The worst part is waking up however cause it usually happens when the pretty girl tries to give me a kiss. I think I get to excited from that and it hastens the wake up process.
I was sleeping last night and my cat jumped up on my chest and sat down.. and I remember thinking, I wonder if this is where the "old hag" vision comes from. (A creature that sits on your chest usually accompanied by a feeling of severe panic like you're going to die) Someone in a state of dreamy hallucination with a cat on their chest could easily invoke that image.
Is this an escalation of the conspiracy?
FYI: You're old enough to go get naked with someone that's not a family member. After you've done that, you'll probably stop dreaming about that time you saw your mom or sister in the bathroom.
I read the title as, "MIT Researchers Developed a 'Systemd for Dream Control'" and thought, "Oh, great. Now they're ruining dreams too! Systemctl stop nightmare.service"
The Dream Police they live inside of my head.
The Dream Police they come to me in my bed.
The Dream Police they're coming to arrest me, OH NO!!
[Cheap Trick as prophecy]
Record it in the present tense. You won't rely on open eyes to see, the walls you built within come tumbling down, and a new world will begin. Living twice at once you learn you're safe from pain in the dream domain - A soul set free to fly!
It's a place where you will learn, to face your fears, retrace the years, and ride the whims of your mind. Put it into a permanent form: If you persist in your efforts, you can achieve dream control. Commanding in another world, suddenly, you hear and see, this magic new dimension. A round trip journey in your head, Master of illusion, can you realize, your dream's alive, you can be the guide.
Time to really mess with their minds, Inception style.